Bermudan Barbie Quotes & Sayings

An interesting thing about book groups, it seems to me, is that there is no correlation between a brilliant book and a brilliant discussion. The first seems sometimes even to undermine the second. — Stacy Schiff

Here upon earth there is life, and then death,
Dawn, and later nightfall,
Fire, and the quenching of embers:
But why should I not remember that my night is dawn in another part of the world,
If the idea fits my fancy? — John Gould Fletcher

Growing up had made her crabby, which happens to the best of us. — Sue Grafton

He missed his venerable master, who had marked him forever with a thirst for knowledge as persistent as the drunk's thirst for alcohol or the ambitious man's thirst for power. He no longer had his mentor's library or his inexhaustible fount of experience. — Isabel Allende

Was coming to that troubled twilight time, a time of regrets that resemble hopes, of hopes that resemble regrets, when youth is past but old age has not yet come. — Ivan Turgenev

Now the only thing we have on our hands is too much time, and we're turning on ourselves. — Adam Carolla

In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past. — Jo Coudert

I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, What happened next? — A.J.P. Taylor

And whatever I do will become forever what I've done. — Wislawa Szymborska

Everything that can be created has already been done in creation. As human beings, we can only imitate, not create as such. — Jaggi Vasudev

Without restoring an ethos of social responsibility, there can be no meaningful and sustained economic recovery. — Jeffrey Sachs

To young women, black and white, Baker embodied the possibility of escaping the restrictions that defined conventional femininity. Authoritative yet unassuming, self-confident and assertive, forcing others to take her seriously simply by presuming that they would, Baker was a revelation. — Barbara Ransby